[ Act No. 2943, February 16, 1921 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE THOUSAND AND FORTY-FIVE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. Section one thousand and forty-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, commonly known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1045. Payment of expenses incident to care of insane person.-The expense of sending an insane person to a hospital or other place for the insane, and of his maintenance therein, shall be paid by the guardian from the property of such insane person, if any there be, or by the person whose duty it is to care for such insane person. In all cases where the insane patient, or the person responsible for his support, is unable wholly or in part to pay the expenses of the patient's transportation to the hospital and return, or for his maintenance and care while at the hospital, the same, or such part thereof as may remain unpaid, shall be paid by the Philippine Health Service."
Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.ℒαwρhi৷
Approved, February 16, 1921.
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